About the Book: Ideology, Absolutism and the English Revolution: Debates of the
British Communist Historians 1940-1956
This book offers a fascinating insight into ideas in the making a glimpse into
some of the early debates inside the History Group of the Communist Party of
Great Britain, whose members included Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton and Eric
Hobsbawm. The outstanding contribution to historical studies of these and other
members of the group is now widely recognised. The debates they initiated formed
the ground for academic research that is still continuing, in particular their
work on the nature of the English civil war and revolution in the 17th century,
and